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senator obama? well, oliver, first let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. right now, the credit markets are frozen up and what that means as a practical matter is that small businesses and some large businesses just can't get loans. if they can't get a loan, that means that they can't make payroll. if they can't make payroll, then they may end up having to shut their doors and lay people off. and if you imagine just one company trying to deal with that, now imagine a million companies all across the country. so it could end up having an adverse effect on everybody, and that's why we had to take action. but we shouldn't have been there in the first place. now, i've got to correct a little bit of senator mccain's history, not surprisingly. let's, first of all, understand that the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system. senator mccain, as recently as march, bragged about the fact that he is a deregulator. on the other hand, two years ago, i sai
senator obama? well, oliver, first let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. right now, the credit markets are frozen up and what that means as a practical matter is that small businesses and some large businesses just can't get loans. if they can't get a loan, that means that they can't make payroll. if they can't make payroll, then they may end up having to shut their doors and lay people off. and if you imagine just one company trying to deal with that, now imagine a million...
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>> this new ad that's come out from the obama campaign, let me play it for you this morning. i'd love your reaction, here it is. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest. >> i'm not even sure what the question is, senator, but i'm-- ( laughter ) i guess i am just asking-- >> i don't, either. ( laughter ). >> jon: that ad allowed john mccain, john mccain allowed him to laugh at you. ( laughter ) to laugh at you for using a cartoonish, child-like figure to invigorate your campaign. that's mccain who was saying that. ( applause ) that's got to hurt. but haters gonna hate, right? hater's gonna hate, the media, the republicans. but at least you're still fighting the good fight, children's literacy. >> obama for america says it's reviewing a request from the sesame workshop to stop airing the ad. >> jon: oh! et tu, big bird? i have-- i may have mixed languages on that. all right, so lesson learned. maybe this will be a wake-up call to the president. to recapture some of that vigor and enthusiasm of '08, when a passionate candidate and committed base of suppor
>> this new ad that's come out from the obama campaign, let me play it for you this morning. i'd love your reaction, here it is. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest. >> i'm not even sure what the question is, senator, but i'm-- ( laughter ) i guess i am just asking-- >> i don't, either. ( laughter ). >> jon: that ad allowed john mccain, john mccain allowed him to laugh at you. ( laughter ) to laugh at you for using a cartoonish,...
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senator obama? >> well, oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. right now, the credit markets are frozen up and what that means, as a practical matter, is that small businesses and some large businesses just can't get loans. if they can't get a loan, that means that they can't make payroll. if they can't make payroll, then they may end up having to shut their doors and lay people off. and if you imagine just one company trying to deal with that, now imagine a million companies all across the country. so it could end up having an adverse effect on everybody, and that's why we had to take action. but we shouldn't have been there in the first place. now, i've got to correct a little bit of senator mccain's history, not surprisingly. let's, first of all, understand that the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system. senator mccain, as recently as march, bragged about the fact that he is a deregulator. on the other hand, two years ago,
senator obama? >> well, oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. right now, the credit markets are frozen up and what that means, as a practical matter, is that small businesses and some large businesses just can't get loans. if they can't get a loan, that means that they can't make payroll. if they can't make payroll, then they may end up having to shut their doors and lay people off. and if you imagine just one company trying to deal with that, now imagine a...
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barack obama. i want to welcome you not only to the city of norfolk, but also to the campus of a old dominion university, of which me and my husband are proud alums. this is the last weekend for a voter registration. we want to be on campus to register last-minute voters. south to get out the voters for our president and continue the good work that our president has done. we have some very special visitors. i want to introduce our state party chair, ryan moran. he has done a heck of a job to make sure that we can get the votes out and have a win on november 6. >> it is a great job you are doing as our commissioner of revenue as well as a norfolk democrat. on behalf of virginia democrats from lorton to norfolk, we are proud to welcome the gotta vote bus tour. they are in virginia because it is the battleground commonwealth. it is so important to get out the vote. so goes virginia, so goes the nation. the radical romney-ryan team cannot win without virginia. we must get the turnout for barack obama.
barack obama. i want to welcome you not only to the city of norfolk, but also to the campus of a old dominion university, of which me and my husband are proud alums. this is the last weekend for a voter registration. we want to be on campus to register last-minute voters. south to get out the voters for our president and continue the good work that our president has done. we have some very special visitors. i want to introduce our state party chair, ryan moran. he has done a heck of a job to...
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senator obama voted against it. some people have said that mortgage- holders really paid the price. >> well, mortgage-holders didn't pay the price. only 10% of the people who are -- have been affected by this whole switch from chapter 7 to chapter 13 -- it gets complicated. but the point of this -- barack obama saw the glass as half- empty. i saw it as half-full. we disagreed on that, and 85 senators voted one way, and 15 voted the other way. but here's the deal. barack obama pointed out two years ago that there was a subprime mortgage crisis and wrote to the secretary of treasury. and he said, "you'd better get on the stick here. you'd better look at it." john mccain said as early as last december, quote -- i'm paraphrasing -- "i'm surprised about this subprime mortgage crisis," number one. number two, with regard to bankruptcy now, gwen, what we should be doing now -- and barack obama and i support it -- we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the interest rate you're paying on you
senator obama voted against it. some people have said that mortgage- holders really paid the price. >> well, mortgage-holders didn't pay the price. only 10% of the people who are -- have been affected by this whole switch from chapter 7 to chapter 13 -- it gets complicated. but the point of this -- barack obama saw the glass as half- empty. i saw it as half-full. we disagreed on that, and 85 senators voted one way, and 15 voted the other way. but here's the deal. barack obama pointed out...
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wolf, i talked to senator jack reed, obama ally in the senate. i asked him, you know, how should biden respond when this issue comes up? he said, look, we should broaden the story line about libya. we didn't send ground troops in. we used air strikes. we brought in our nato partners and talk about the positive ways the obama administration handled libya and that biden should point out that paul ryan's most recent budget in the house called for reductions in spending to the state department and he said that could jeopardize u.s. security and that biden should point that out. >> we know that half of the debate is supposed to be on foreign policy, national security. the other half on domestic issues. right now they're introducing the wives of the candidates. soledad, tell our viewers what you're seeing. >> that's right. the commissioner has been really running through the program as they head up through the start of the debate. interesting difference between the two wives. very different women, of course. >> very different, primarily because we do s
wolf, i talked to senator jack reed, obama ally in the senate. i asked him, you know, how should biden respond when this issue comes up? he said, look, we should broaden the story line about libya. we didn't send ground troops in. we used air strikes. we brought in our nato partners and talk about the positive ways the obama administration handled libya and that biden should point out that paul ryan's most recent budget in the house called for reductions in spending to the state department and...
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barack obama and he did a great job then and with everything he touches. and he joins us today. michael. >> thank you. let's give another round of aplause to governor deval patrick. of all the places the governor could be, him being here in virginia 24 days before election day shows the importance of virge. that's another reason why president obama is going to win on election day. to sharon it's always good to have people who remind us of why we do this work. someone who is committed and reminds us this is about everyday life and so thank you for what dow and thank you for all the volunteers and thank you to all the people here today. everyone let's be clear, this is a very clear choice that we have in this election about going forward or backward. and we all know that 24 days from today we have to go forward and elect president obama as our president. why? 32 million americans have healthcare right now because president obama stood up to make sure healthcare got done. [applause] in 24 days let's be reminded about what's at stake. it's because education is
barack obama and he did a great job then and with everything he touches. and he joins us today. michael. >> thank you. let's give another round of aplause to governor deval patrick. of all the places the governor could be, him being here in virginia 24 days before election day shows the importance of virge. that's another reason why president obama is going to win on election day. to sharon it's always good to have people who remind us of why we do this work. someone who is committed and...
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in 2008, senator obama beat senator john mccain by 2 to 1 in the margin in the youth vote in this country. it's crucial for the president to get similar numbers this time around if he's going to win the state of florida. of course, to vote they must be registered and voter registration drives have been underway for months. according to statistics from the zx 2.8 million people are registered as independents or with a third party. the numbers are interesting, but it means nothing if there's no emotional component that will motivate them to do it. this is why the debates are so important in today's information culture. there must be a real emotional appeal by president obama if he's to succeed in getting these voters out to the polls. the best registration drive imaginable will not do a thing if there isn't this gut feeling that these young folks must get out and vote because they can make a difference. let's turn to annette taddeo, member of the democratic party and one of the leaders in this portion of florida. the youth vote, i don't want to oversell it, but everywhere i go today down he
in 2008, senator obama beat senator john mccain by 2 to 1 in the margin in the youth vote in this country. it's crucial for the president to get similar numbers this time around if he's going to win the state of florida. of course, to vote they must be registered and voter registration drives have been underway for months. according to statistics from the zx 2.8 million people are registered as independents or with a third party. the numbers are interesting, but it means nothing if there's no...
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the obama administration had two years of republican house and senate and they did not introduce the same reforms that had been introduced before. >> this is all politics. we are not the world police. we are not supposed to be the world police. you go back to george washington and he was saying, to not be the world police. what i want to know from the congressman is, will he admit he got hoodwinked on iraq? the government sold us a bill of goods about weapons of mass destruction for a country that has the gdp of a small city that was no threat there. it was no threat made or no ability to harm the united states, but here we are nine years into a war in iraq for 4,500 servicemen dead. he got faked out on that one. that is something we should not have been involved in. i wonder if the congressman would admit he was wrong? >> hindsight is 20/20. you had virtually the entire congress move along with the resolution to go to war. >> there is something happening in iran with nuclear weapons that is getting a lot of attention. how can we handle the threat of nukes in iran? >> right now there
the obama administration had two years of republican house and senate and they did not introduce the same reforms that had been introduced before. >> this is all politics. we are not the world police. we are not supposed to be the world police. you go back to george washington and he was saying, to not be the world police. what i want to know from the congressman is, will he admit he got hoodwinked on iraq? the government sold us a bill of goods about weapons of mass destruction for a...
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he's a chairman of foreign relations in the senate. he pointed out the essential problem with the romney/ryan position, which is they want to be critical, but they don't want to do anything different from what the obama team is doing. i mean, they agree with the 2014 withdrawal date for afghanistan. but we'll do it right. you know? but they're not proposing to do anything different. >> aside from those withdrawal dates, you basically are talking about an administration that has lifted the foreign policy of george bush and just supplanted it into their own scheme. >> foreign policy is more like a train. it's on rails. >> you're a journalist. what do you make of him challenging martha and saying here, come on, you can always find an army, soldier, some g.i. dog face willing to complain about the policy. he hit her on that. >> well, he did. he did point out something that's factual, actually, that you can always find people out on the posts who will criticize the pentagon. for the latest bone headed decision the pentagon has made. if the
he's a chairman of foreign relations in the senate. he pointed out the essential problem with the romney/ryan position, which is they want to be critical, but they don't want to do anything different from what the obama team is doing. i mean, they agree with the 2014 withdrawal date for afghanistan. but we'll do it right. you know? but they're not proposing to do anything different. >> aside from those withdrawal dates, you basically are talking about an administration that has lifted the...
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to date you would say that favorite is obama. today you would say the democrats are likely to keep the senate. governor romney has a very narrow path, and if he wins the presidency, that means there is a wave behind him, there is some left to him, and that will bring in a couple candidates to put them all won over. >> so you understand, charlie cook has forgotten more about the senate races than i ever knew. he is the bible in this. but of the reasons people beforehand a year ago thought the republicans were so sure is 2006 was a wave election and democrats won in a lot place where you did not expect them to win. the democrats work defending 23 seats and republicans only to end. by the nature of the math, it seems likely that the republicans would pick up seats and the democrats would lose. now i think the conventional wisdom is it is less than 50-50 that the republicans will take the senate. >> talk about the house for a moment, controlled by republicans. democrats would have to pick up a lot of the seats. >> it is a long shot.
to date you would say that favorite is obama. today you would say the democrats are likely to keep the senate. governor romney has a very narrow path, and if he wins the presidency, that means there is a wave behind him, there is some left to him, and that will bring in a couple candidates to put them all won over. >> so you understand, charlie cook has forgotten more about the senate races than i ever knew. he is the bible in this. but of the reasons people beforehand a year ago thought...
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president obama won it over senator mccain by five points, 52-47%. you know it, professor. ryan is going to hamilton. there are a lot of republican votes. it was a swing county with the president winning by eight, 54-46% . what do you see now for obama or romney? >> one of the biggest pluses the romney-ryan ticket has in ohio, is senator robb portman. he is working on hamilton county too. you're absolutely focus to turn on hamilton. they must get a big republican vote. the biggest problem they have in ohio is the auto industry question. the president obama is given credit for that by democrats and some independents in ohio. we'll see. it is getting closer in ohio. bill: it is close. what if scenario, professor. indulge me if you will. on our map here if we go full, if you look at the 11 battleground states that are in gray. this is the states where the polling show frankly it is too close to call. in our what if scenario, for governor romney we'll give him the sake for this discussion, 29 electoral votes in florida. remember you need 270 to win the white house. now he is 22
president obama won it over senator mccain by five points, 52-47%. you know it, professor. ryan is going to hamilton. there are a lot of republican votes. it was a swing county with the president winning by eight, 54-46% . what do you see now for obama or romney? >> one of the biggest pluses the romney-ryan ticket has in ohio, is senator robb portman. he is working on hamilton county too. you're absolutely focus to turn on hamilton. they must get a big republican vote. the biggest problem...
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>>guest: if mitt romney wins this race, he will have a republican senate and if president obama wins the race he will have a democratic senate. what i was going to say i harken back to what happened in 1986. i believe that is the model for making a big thing happen. amazingly, think of this, in 1986 when ronald reagan put on tax reform on the table, you had a bill that cut the top income tax rate down to 28 percent, it got rid of the special interest loopholes and here is the amazing part, that bill passed the united states senate 97-3. that is bipartisanship. call me optimist but i think there is the opportunity to get that deal. >>neil: conservatives were critical of ronald reagan for giving away allowances and breaks. but he did so to get a deal. that was called "negotiating." >>guest: in the end it was a great deal. the only problem was what has happened in the subsequent 25 years we keep adding to the tax code all o the garbage and all of the termites that are destroying the tax system. i like the idea of a reform and i would not, i do think there is a chance we could get entitl
>>guest: if mitt romney wins this race, he will have a republican senate and if president obama wins the race he will have a democratic senate. what i was going to say i harken back to what happened in 1986. i believe that is the model for making a big thing happen. amazingly, think of this, in 1986 when ronald reagan put on tax reform on the table, you had a bill that cut the top income tax rate down to 28 percent, it got rid of the special interest loopholes and here is the amazing...
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senator john mccain and obama from 2,000 eight. at 10: 10 p.m. bill clinton and bush and ross me row. and then watch mitt romney in their town hall debate. >> coming up we'll go live to the university of wisconsin la crosse for a campaign stop for joe biden. we'll get to hear his thoughts after last night's debate. we'll join it live. more coverage with mitt romney. he is in a rally in ohio this afternoon. he will be teamed up with paul ryan. that gets under way at 5: 40 eastern. while we wait on that to get under way we look at a briefing. >> good afternoon everyone thanks for being here. before we start, i just thought i'd say if i might in what you could consider a personal privilege setting aside acements of winners and losers. i worked with the vice president for two years and traveled with him around the country and the world. i took extreme pleasure in watching the debate last night because of the way he demonstrated his passion and his wisdom and the joy that he brings to the job of serving the american people as vice president and of wor
senator john mccain and obama from 2,000 eight. at 10: 10 p.m. bill clinton and bush and ross me row. and then watch mitt romney in their town hall debate. >> coming up we'll go live to the university of wisconsin la crosse for a campaign stop for joe biden. we'll get to hear his thoughts after last night's debate. we'll join it live. more coverage with mitt romney. he is in a rally in ohio this afternoon. he will be teamed up with paul ryan. that gets under way at 5: 40 eastern. while we...
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however president obama has to come out next tuesday and seal the deal. if he doesn't, everything joe biden side will not matter. jon: when congressman ryan the sitting vice president, a guy in the senate for 36 years, i know you're under a lot of duress to regain some ground here but, seemed like a pretty effective putdown to that role that he had been tasked with. >> yeah, no, exactly. think the american people understand that. and again if you are the sitting party, and you control the white house and your vice president is still at this late date trying to rally your base you have got some problems. that is why it freed up paul ryan to speak to those independent voters, to speak to women, to speak to undecideds and make his message very clear. >> except that paul ryan, once again never came through with any specifics. i can pretend i have a five-point plan to take you to mars unless i give you to specifics how you will do that. you will not believe me. he did not answer at all what deductions they were going to plug. how they would replace obamacare t
however president obama has to come out next tuesday and seal the deal. if he doesn't, everything joe biden side will not matter. jon: when congressman ryan the sitting vice president, a guy in the senate for 36 years, i know you're under a lot of duress to regain some ground here but, seemed like a pretty effective putdown to that role that he had been tasked with. >> yeah, no, exactly. think the american people understand that. and again if you are the sitting party, and you control the...
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. >> nethese are a group of peopl that saw barack obama feed a state senator who was under scandal, who saw barack obama win the u.s. senate race because his main opponent took his wife to strip clubs who won the presidency after eight years of george w. bush. i don't think he's had his back against the wall. i love it. it's fascinating to see the character of this man and see how he responds. >> well, you know, you can't show up to the next debate if you're the president of the united states clearly accompanied by a level of disdain that was so apparent visually. what am i doing here with this guy? he had absolutely no respect for mitt romney. you know, you hear that over and over again internally, but he showed it visually. he showed it when he was on stage with governor romney the other night. he cannot show up like that again. >> it was also a strategy, though. he was playing four corners offense. he felt like he had a lead and took the air out of the ball. he can't afford to do that. there's still four weeks left. he'll be a totally different guy in the next debate. >> i don't thin
. >> nethese are a group of peopl that saw barack obama feed a state senator who was under scandal, who saw barack obama win the u.s. senate race because his main opponent took his wife to strip clubs who won the presidency after eight years of george w. bush. i don't think he's had his back against the wall. i love it. it's fascinating to see the character of this man and see how he responds. >> well, you know, you can't show up to the next debate if you're the president of the...
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senator obama voted against it. some people have said that mortgage- holders really paid the price. >> well, mortgage-holders didn't pay the price. only 10% of the people who are -- have been affected by this whole switch from chapter 7 to chapter 13 -- it gets complicated. but the point of this -- barack obama saw the glass as half- empty. i saw it as half-full. we disagreed on that, and 85 senators voted one way, and 15 voted the other way. but here's the deal. barack obama pointed out two years ago that there was a subprime mortgage crisis and wrote to the secretary of treasury. and he said, "you'd better get on the stick here. you'd better look at it." john mccain said as early as last december, quote -- i'm paraphrasing -- "i'm surprised about this subprime mortgage crisis," number one. number two, with regard to bankruptcy now, gwen, what we should be doing now -- and barack obama and i support it -- we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the interest rate you're paying on you
senator obama voted against it. some people have said that mortgage- holders really paid the price. >> well, mortgage-holders didn't pay the price. only 10% of the people who are -- have been affected by this whole switch from chapter 7 to chapter 13 -- it gets complicated. but the point of this -- barack obama saw the glass as half- empty. i saw it as half-full. we disagreed on that, and 85 senators voted one way, and 15 voted the other way. but here's the deal. barack obama pointed out...
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john mccain cried foul over the obama campaign's new bird ad. >> elmo is -- has been seen in a white suburban he's driving for the border. oscar is hide out in his trash can. we're cracking down on them. governor romney's plan is to let wall street run wild again but he's going to bring the hammer down on sesame street. >> one thing that president obama can't run on is his record, and so big bird, i guess, is a fun thing to talk about. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama and mitt romney are heading back to ohio today in a very different situation than the last time they campaigned in the battleground state. the new pew poll know shows governor romney ahead among likely voters. it's the latest dose of reality for the obama camp in a race that is evolving with only weeks left until election day. joining me for our daily fix, chris cizilla, msnbc contributor and managing editor o of postpolitics.com and mark halperin for "time" and msnbc. joining us from chicago. chris cizilla, first of all to you, the new polls certainly have given a great burst of ener
john mccain cried foul over the obama campaign's new bird ad. >> elmo is -- has been seen in a white suburban he's driving for the border. oscar is hide out in his trash can. we're cracking down on them. governor romney's plan is to let wall street run wild again but he's going to bring the hammer down on sesame street. >> one thing that president obama can't run on is his record, and so big bird, i guess, is a fun thing to talk about. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in...
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the obama administration had two years of republican house and senate and they did not introduce the same reforms that had been introduced before. >> this is all politics. we are not the world police. we are not supposed to be the world police. you go back to george washington and he was saying, to not be the world police. what i want to know from the congressman is, will he admit he got hoodwinked on iraq? the government sold us a bill of goods about weapons of mass destruction for a country that has the gdp of a small city that was no threat there. it was no threat made or no ability to harm the united states, but here we are nine years into a war in iraq for 4,500 servicemen dead. he got faked out on that one. that is something we should not have been involved in. i wonder if the congressman would admit he was wrong? >> hindsight is 20/20. you had virtually the entire congress move along with the resolution to go to war. >> there is something happening in iran with nuclear weapons that is getting a lot of attention. how can we handle the threat of nukes in iran? >> right now there
the obama administration had two years of republican house and senate and they did not introduce the same reforms that had been introduced before. >> this is all politics. we are not the world police. we are not supposed to be the world police. you go back to george washington and he was saying, to not be the world police. what i want to know from the congressman is, will he admit he got hoodwinked on iraq? the government sold us a bill of goods about weapons of mass destruction for a...
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senator john mccain and senator barack obama from 2008. george w. bush and vice president al gore from 2000. and then bill clinton, george bush and ross perot. then watch president obama and governor romney in their town hall debate. >> dean heller and shelley be rkley is a toss-up. this is held at pbs studios and is about 50 minutes. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to the 2012 that a u.s. senate debate brought to you by the broadcasters foundation in partnership with the broadcasters' association. we want to welcome our national audience. and the 36 nevada television stations and radio stations carrying the debate. tonight's debate is being translated into spanish. i will serve as your moderator for this important political event. joining me is republican u.s. senator dean heller and democratic congresswoman shelley berkley. we want to thank everyone that is providing this block of time as a public service to our communities. the broadcasters feel in obligation to engage the electorate and inform the voters. the format has been accepted and agreed
senator john mccain and senator barack obama from 2008. george w. bush and vice president al gore from 2000. and then bill clinton, george bush and ross perot. then watch president obama and governor romney in their town hall debate. >> dean heller and shelley be rkley is a toss-up. this is held at pbs studios and is about 50 minutes. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to the 2012 that a u.s. senate debate brought to you by the broadcasters foundation in partnership with the...
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now, barack obama and senator biden also voted for the largest tax increases in u.s. history. barack had 94 opportunities to side on the people's side and reduce taxes, and 94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction. 94 times. now, that's not what we need to create jobs and really bolster and heat up our economy. we do need the private sector to be able to keep more of what we earn and produce. government's going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less if that's what it takes to rein in the government growth that we've seen today. but we do need tax relief, and barack obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making only $42,000 a year. that's a lot of middle income, average american families, to increase taxes on them? i think that is a way to kill jobs and continue to harm our economy. >> moderator: senator? biden: charge is absolutely not true. barack obama did not vote to raise taxes. the vote she's referring to, john mccain voted the exact same way. it was a budget procedural vote. john mccain vo
now, barack obama and senator biden also voted for the largest tax increases in u.s. history. barack had 94 opportunities to side on the people's side and reduce taxes, and 94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction. 94 times. now, that's not what we need to create jobs and really bolster and heat up our economy. we do need the private sector to be able to keep more of what we earn and produce. government's going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less...
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advice to the president would be let him be the senator and candidate he was in 2008. >> reporter: -- >> reporter: according to a new poll the president holds a narrow lead among likely voters. romney leads in enthusiasm. one piece of good news for mr. obama the percentage of registered voters who say the country is on the wrong track is at lowest in three years. another new poll has romney up 50-48% across 10 battleground states. if president obama is to be effective tomorrow night it will have to be in the town hall style debate where voters can ask questions of him and governor romney. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >> we'll carry the debate live tomorrow night starting at 6:00. >>> i'm peeking over your shoulder lisa, i see at&t park and the fog is gone. >> should be nice this evening but the winds are going to pick up and the fog is coming back. as we head out now, looks nice another beautiful day to enjoy before high fire danger comes back. this is vollmer peak you can see high clouds, east bay sunny for much of the morning temperatures approaching 70° if some spots. closer t
advice to the president would be let him be the senator and candidate he was in 2008. >> reporter: -- >> reporter: according to a new poll the president holds a narrow lead among likely voters. romney leads in enthusiasm. one piece of good news for mr. obama the percentage of registered voters who say the country is on the wrong track is at lowest in three years. another new poll has romney up 50-48% across 10 battleground states. if president obama is to be effective tomorrow night...
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i think you'll see her try to remind viewers that he supports mitt romney, not president obama, and in the last debate, scott brown would not commit to voting to mitch mcconnell for senate majority leader if re-elected, but i think she'll try to tie him to the national republican party. another thing that happened in the last debate was scott brown was saying as a model supreme court justice, that scalia was the conservative justice, a model for him, and warren's campaign hit hard on that trying to bring up talk of, you know, important job of a senator is to confirm supreme court justice nominees, and scott brown said this conservative is an ideal justice for him. >> host: you touched on this a little bit, but why are people paying attention to the race? >> guest: it's one of the closest races in the country. scott brown is just one of two vulnerable republican incumbent senators up for re-election this year. the other is dean heller in nevada. it's been tight in polls over the last year, and then scott brown has been ahead in some over the last month or several weeks at least. warren
i think you'll see her try to remind viewers that he supports mitt romney, not president obama, and in the last debate, scott brown would not commit to voting to mitch mcconnell for senate majority leader if re-elected, but i think she'll try to tie him to the national republican party. another thing that happened in the last debate was scott brown was saying as a model supreme court justice, that scalia was the conservative justice, a model for him, and warren's campaign hit hard on that...
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advice to the president would be let him be the senator and candidate he was in 2008. >> reporter: -- >> reporter: according to a new poll the president holds a narrow lead among likely voters. romney leads in enthusiasm. one piece of good news for mr. obama the percentage of registered voters who say the country is on the wrong track is at lowest in three years. another new poll has romney up 50-48% across 10 battleground states. if president obama is to be effective tomorrow night it will have to be in the town hall style debate where voters can ask questions of him and governor romney. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >> we'll carry the debate live tomorrow night starting at 6:00. >>> i'm peeking over your shoulder lisa, i see at&t park and the fog is gone. >> should be nice this evening but the winds are going to pick up and the fog is coming back. as we head out now, looks nice another beautiful day to enjoy before high fire danger comes back. this is vollmer peak you can see high clouds, east bay sunny for much of the morning temperatures approaching 70° if some spots. closer t
advice to the president would be let him be the senator and candidate he was in 2008. >> reporter: -- >> reporter: according to a new poll the president holds a narrow lead among likely voters. romney leads in enthusiasm. one piece of good news for mr. obama the percentage of registered voters who say the country is on the wrong track is at lowest in three years. another new poll has romney up 50-48% across 10 battleground states. if president obama is to be effective tomorrow night...
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he tried once to numb it somebody and that person didn't get the senate so he didn't try again. so president obama says he really cares about regulation has done very little to try and fix the status,. >> i'm walking offstage if i don't get respond. >> you can respond by we got to keep this type out of respect for the audience. >> the mere fact that crew think something violates the law doesn't mean that it does. the fec is the agency, the enforcement agency for presidential appointees that determines what the regulations are and when something violates the law. anybody can file a complaint with the fec here that doesn't mean somebody violated the law. i hope we're all glad that is the case but it's kind of like a plaintiffs in the judge won't enforce the law because he ruled against the. the fec does not deadlock frequency. it deadlocks about three or 4% of the time. just virtually never comes the. we can just go on and on and on down almost every point that melanie says. frankly, you don't have a clue as to what goes on. but that's the facts. you don't know what you're talking
he tried once to numb it somebody and that person didn't get the senate so he didn't try again. so president obama says he really cares about regulation has done very little to try and fix the status,. >> i'm walking offstage if i don't get respond. >> you can respond by we got to keep this type out of respect for the audience. >> the mere fact that crew think something violates the law doesn't mean that it does. the fec is the agency, the enforcement agency for presidential...
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>>president obama and his republican challenger, mitt romney, will face off tomorrow night in their second presidential debate. the debate's being held at hofstra university in hempstead, new york and the moderator will be c-n-n's candy crowley. it's a town hall format this time. obama and romney will field questions from more than a dozen undecided voters. the format is designed to produce interaction with the voters rather than heated exchanges between the candidates. >>the father of the u-s ambassador killed in an attack in libya says his son's death should not be politicized in the presidential campaign. mitt romney has criticized president obama for not providing adequate security in libya. the obama campaign said romney's "shoot-from-the-hip" diplomacy shows his lack of experience in foreign affairs. stevens' father says politicians should wait for the findings of a formal investigation before making accusations or judgments. >>the people of pakistan are rallying around a little girl, targeted by the taliban. last week, 14 year old activist,malala yousafzai was shot in the head, aboa
>>president obama and his republican challenger, mitt romney, will face off tomorrow night in their second presidential debate. the debate's being held at hofstra university in hempstead, new york and the moderator will be c-n-n's candy crowley. it's a town hall format this time. obama and romney will field questions from more than a dozen undecided voters. the format is designed to produce interaction with the voters rather than heated exchanges between the candidates. >>the father...
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look at results from 2008 now with senator mccain and senator obama. it ohio it went democratic, went blue, a huge victory for the president then. but just yesterday he went back right here to the heart of the state, that is franklin county, capital city, columbus. he was at ohio state university driving up younger vote there where he found so many votes just four years ago. now you see why he is going back yet again. if you then look at governor romney's strategy today, he is not going to columbus but going just north of it in delaware county. huge growth in this county. an offshoot of columbus and overhere in knox county where we saw john roberts. if you start to see the strategy now as for why ohio is so critical and the number of times, for governor romney, he is spending three of the next four-days in ohio alone, and you see in that what if scenario how critical that could be in the end four weeks away. martha, back to you. martha: thanks, bill. focus shifts to the vice-president deng debate which happens tomorrow night. earlier i sat down once ag
look at results from 2008 now with senator mccain and senator obama. it ohio it went democratic, went blue, a huge victory for the president then. but just yesterday he went back right here to the heart of the state, that is franklin county, capital city, columbus. he was at ohio state university driving up younger vote there where he found so many votes just four years ago. now you see why he is going back yet again. if you then look at governor romney's strategy today, he is not going to...
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when he said he never proposed $5 trillion in tax cuts, that was dishonest. >> when senator obama said in 2008, i'm going to cut the deficit in half, close gitmo, people said that was unrealistic, but didn't say he wasn't telling the truth. there's a difference, isn't there? >> no. closing gitmo involved an act of congress, and he wasn't able to get congress to agree with him on that question. this is basic math. >> greta: joining us our political panel, abc news senior washington editor rick klein, casey huntington, and byron york. rick, first you. i thought it was executive order to close gitmo, just needed congress to place the people. am i right? >> they realized it was going to be harder than they wanted. the distinction he's making is in terms of campaign pledges versus actions that you can possibly have congress do later. it's a stretch obviously. one man's lie and dishonesty. >> greta: it's name-calling. >> you've seen a shift from the obama campaign in terms of how they're trying to discuss and describe mitt romney. for a long time they were more interested in trying to descri
when he said he never proposed $5 trillion in tax cuts, that was dishonest. >> when senator obama said in 2008, i'm going to cut the deficit in half, close gitmo, people said that was unrealistic, but didn't say he wasn't telling the truth. there's a difference, isn't there? >> no. closing gitmo involved an act of congress, and he wasn't able to get congress to agree with him on that question. this is basic math. >> greta: joining us our political panel, abc news senior...
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. >> barack obama and senator o'biden, you've said no to everything -- >> of course, the palin-biden matchup was not the first time a relative rookie faced off against a more seasoned opponent. in 2004, it was vice president dick cheney up against senator john edwards. with one rehearsed line highlighted edwards' inexperienced and his poor senate attendance record. >> i'm up in the senate most tuesdays when they're in session. the first time i ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight. >> but the prize for the best zinger aimed at a whipper snapper undoubtedly goes to the late senator lloyd benson. in his 1988 debate against a youthful dan quayle, benson delivered one of the most famous lines in any debate history. >> senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> it can be a tough line for a washington veteran to walk, touting experience without talking down to an opponent. something that george h.w. bush failed at during his 1984 debate with geraldine ferraro. >> let me help you with the d
. >> barack obama and senator o'biden, you've said no to everything -- >> of course, the palin-biden matchup was not the first time a relative rookie faced off against a more seasoned opponent. in 2004, it was vice president dick cheney up against senator john edwards. with one rehearsed line highlighted edwards' inexperienced and his poor senate attendance record. >> i'm up in the senate most tuesdays when they're in session. the first time i ever met you was when you walked...
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. > >> reporter: the state department said they're reviewing that charge, and obama campaign officials insist republicans are politicizing the terror attack. >> you know what?'t need wing td cowboys. we don't need shoot from the hip diplomacy. >> reporter: fox news has learned senator graham has fired a letter off to the president about two prior targets of the embassy. he writes mr. president, were you informed of these attacks, if not, why not. if you were informed, what action was taken to protect the consulate. these are some pointed questions for the white house tonight on the eve of this big debate, bret. >> bret: you know, the white house is facing pressure tonight on syria. >> reporter: they are. in that debate last week, the vice-president basically said that al-qaeda was not gaining strength inside syria, and that indirect help the u.s. was providing through the saudis and others was helping the rebels and not helping al-qaeda. you'll remember republican priep pushed back and insisted these arms were getting into the hands of jihaddists. today the "new york times" reports the
. > >> reporter: the state department said they're reviewing that charge, and obama campaign officials insist republicans are politicizing the terror attack. >> you know what?'t need wing td cowboys. we don't need shoot from the hip diplomacy. >> reporter: fox news has learned senator graham has fired a letter off to the president about two prior targets of the embassy. he writes mr. president, were you informed of these attacks, if not, why not. if you were informed, what...